June 2012 Table of Contents

June 2012 Table of Contents

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FEATURES

Assessment: Where’s the Tech in the Common Core?
T&L editors spoke with industry experts to get insight about how technology will be used to both leverage and manage the delivery of curriculum that meets Common Core standards.

Assessment Apps

9 WAYS TO ASSESS WITHOUT STANDARDIZED TESTS

Assessment Strategies: Back Office Business

Tech & Learning’s 2012 Most Influential in EdTech
By Holly Aguirre
Streaming video and digital textbooks in the classroom. Stronger assessments through technology. These issues are no longer speculation but reality. These are the people that are making it happen. Ready or not, here they come.

SCHOOLCIO : Preparing for Online Testing in 2014
From New Jersey to Ohio to Washington, districts are preparing for online testing. Here, we check in with a few district-level technology directors to see where they are in the process. This section also includes comments from and profiles on our CIO advisors.

How do you get buy-in on edtech from the school community?

CIOProfile: Rick Cave

THEY SAID IT: From the SchoolCIO Advisor Blog

PRODUCTS

Put to the Test: T&L editors take some new products for a test drive.
Read&Write 5 GOLD for Mac
TechSmith SnagIt
Inspiration Maps
Long Review: Lightspeed’s My Big Campus and learning.com

What’s New

DEPARTMENTS & COLUMNS

Editor’s Desk
Editors Desk – How the list was picked

News & Trends
• Top 10 Web stories
• BLOG BITS
• TOP TWEETS
• Are You Ready for 2014?
• 5 Ways to Clean YouTube Videos
• Site We Like
• The “Ultimate School” Infographic
• Top Sites for Images and Clip Art
• New Movie Umbrella License
• Video of the Week Blog Series
• Solve for Tomorrow Awards

They Said It: Joyce Valenza analyzes the research value of infographics.